Sexual Anxieties in Bram Stoker's Horror Novels

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dc.contributor.advisorKiss, Boglárka
dc.contributor.authorHorváth, Imre
dc.contributor.departmentDE--TEK--Bölcsészettudományi Karhu_HU
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-06T13:45:38Z
dc.date.available2013-05-06T13:45:38Z
dc.date.created2013
dc.date.issued2013-05-06T13:45:38Z
dc.description.abstractGlennis Byron claims that “[…] Gothic fiction generally […] is concerned with unconscious desires, with the release of what has been psychically repressed, and so, from the start, has inevitably been amenable to psychoanalytical readings, particularly those which focus on sexuality” (Byron 7). Set in the time of the infamously prudish Victorian era, Bram Stoker’s horror novels, sexual acts are present, yet displaced and masked as e. g. blood transfusions, mesmeric battles of minds or desecrations of the dead. Issues of sexual nature, such as female sexual dominance, homosexual desire, promiscuity, etc. implicitly haunt the three books, clothed in the fears and anxieties, such as castration anxiety, identity problems; fear of blood, mythical monsters, undead creatures, murder, plague, black magic, death and so on. In my thesis, I elaborate on how sexual anxieties, sex-related fears operate in Dracula, The Lair of the White Worm and The Jewel of Seven Stars. They are very rich texts, and it is not in my intention to elaborate on the possible readings of every detail. Rather, my thesis is to give the reader a general overview on a) why are the fears and anxieties in the three books sexual fears, b) who is afraid of what, c) and why is he afraid. To achieve that, besides psychoanalysis, I incorporate in the text some ideas of social sciences in order to provide a working model on how sexuality and fear operates in Bram Stoker’s horror novels. I argue that sexual anxieties in the novels are all related to a masculine self, who feels anxious in the presence of gender identities and sexual behaviour that does not fit his view of the world; this fearful element has to be removed, for it is a threat to his self, his sexual integrity, his morals, his identity. Bram Stoker evokes all kinds of archetypal figures, creatures, monsters from culture that are related to sexuality and sexual anxieties, and through them, the reader is captivated by horroristic stories that are immensely sexual.hu_HU
dc.description.courseanglisztikahu_HU
dc.description.degreeBSc/BAhu_HU
dc.format.extent24hu_HU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2437/167021
dc.language.isoenhu_HU
dc.rights.accessiphu_HU
dc.subjectBram Stokerhu_HU
dc.subjectsexualityhu_HU
dc.subject.dspaceDEENK Témalista::Könyvtártudományhu_HU
dc.titleSexual Anxieties in Bram Stoker's Horror Novelshu_HU
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Theses (Institute of English and American Studies)